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Learning and working through lockdown
As plans to get children back into classrooms dominate the news, Simone Richardson meets three local women working in education to...
How are you coping with lockdown?
LEAP, the Lambeth Early Action Partnership, has an online survey to discover how parents of children up...
Poetic Unity’s Positive Impact since Lockdown
Poetic Unity is a Brixton based charity whose vision is to give young people a voice and to empower them.
We use poetry as a tool...
Council to underwrite cost of Cherry Groce memorial
Lambeth council is to underwrite more than £80,000 of the cost of the Cherry Groce memorial in...
Reparations march in pictures
Images of today’s reparations march in Brixton by Jessica Dyer, Jenny Shramenko and Robert Delaney
https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-nhs-nurse-sheila-magudu
More than a march – this year will be different
Reparations Rebellion Groundings 2020 – Moving on Globally
Esther Stanford-Xosei explains the political, historical and social background...
Police impose conditions on plan to close Brixton Road
Police have today (31 July) imposed conditions on tomorrow’s planned “lockdown” of Brixton as part of the...
Council plans to extend Pop Brixton lease
Lambeth council is planning to extend the lease of Pop Brixton until November 2022. Its current lease...
‘Being around nature, animals, children and visitors is priceless’
Vauxhall City farm, just a short bus or Tube ride from Brixton, today reopens after the lockdown. Simone Richardson talked to chief executive...
Melting Pothead – Stories of an Anglo-Indian raised on Brixton’s Frontline
Siddy Shivdasani’s “Melting Pothead” is more of a photo album than an autobiography. It’s like sitting with Siddy on his sofa while he takes...
‘It was scary – but I serve the people’
Simone Richardson meets Derek Chong, whose Electric Avenue fruit and vegetable stall was open throughout the lockdown – just as it...
Reparations marchers plan ‘Brixton lockdown’
Brixton will once again be the starting point for the annual march organised by the Stop The...
Brixton tower: planning applicant does not own the site
AG Hondo Popes Road BV, the Amsterdam-based company seeking planning permission for a 19-storey tower on Popes...
More new offices for Brixton
The Shakespeare Business Centre off Coldharbour Lane at the Loughborough Junction end is to be restored and...
Inedible Harvest at the San Mei Gallery
Inedible Harvest by Natural Selection is an exhibition at the San Mei gallery where the process of creating the work is as interesting as...
BLM inspires another Youthsayers tune
https://youtu.be/yahcz2rpj6A
Following the release of their excellent version of Sam Cooke’s civil-rights movement classic A Change Is Gonna...